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I love to see  kids getting out deer hunting. I received a call back in November from my friend Brad who told me about a giant Missouri buck that had been harvested by a fifteen year old boy with a bow. A friend of his Shawn at work had called him and told him about it. Brad asked me if I would like to go over and see the buck and do a story about it on here. I told him I would love to do a story on it. So the next day my son and I drove over and got to meet Taylor and his family and they were kind enough to let me take some video footage of the Pope and Young buck and do a story on here.

The boys name is Taylor and him and his brother Tayden woke up a little late that day but got up and went out and sat on a log together and had been using a doe bleat when this monster buck showed up. Taylor made a great shot and harvested a beautiful once in a lifetime Pope and Young buck. I unofficially scored the deer around 185 gross and 175 net. To harvest a Pope and Young buck of this caliber at fifteen is just awesome. Now I don’t know but I would like to see where Taylor’s buck ranks all-time of whitetails taken by a fifteen year old with a bow. I would think it would rank very well. Just a few days after Taylor harvested his deer with his brother Tayden watching, it was Tayden’s turn with the bow and he took a nice eight point buck. Way to go Taylor and Tayden it looks like the future of deer hunting is in good hands.

Sometimes I think us hunters tend to complicate deer hunting to much with all the products and gadgets and everything and if we would just keep it simple we would probably see more deer. I guess it comes down to being at the right place at the right time. video management, video solution, video streaming

Congratulations to Taylor and Tayden on such a great story. I’m sure it is a hunt that you two as brothers will cherish and remember for a very long time. Being in the great outdoors making memories like this with family and friends is something that we should fight to keep and be able to pass on the great American heritage of hunting to our kids and theirs. There are many people out there who want to take away our privilege to hunt. We can do more to help protect wildlife and it’s habitat and it starts with us being good stewards of the land and being responsible ethical hunters. Awesome story guys thank you for letting me share it here.

DHBB Pro-staff member Troy sent me a picture of a nice whitetail he got on trail camera in his backyard. That is a nice whitetail Troy, next year you need to put you a hang on or a ladder stand back there and get that big boy.

It is that time again the end of another year of deer hunting. It always seems to go so fast. I hope you all had a great year of deer hunting and getting after those big bucks. I had one of the toughest years of deer hunting that I can ever remember. I saw less whitetails this year than any that I can remember. I got a very late start scouting because we moved from Georgia to Kansas in August and I just never seemed to get in the groove of things. I was able to locate some very good sign and hunt on some very promising looking land. But hunting in Georgia all my life I’ve got a thing or two to learn about hunting in Kansas. With all the crop fields in the area I had a hard time locating where the whitetails would be feeding. They could feed in so many different areas and pinpointing the location where they would be feeding was kind of challenging to me not knowing the full landscape of the land. I tried to find the location where I was hunting on Google Earth but could not pin point my exact hunting location. Next year I should be way more prepared and have a better chance at harvesting one of the big bucks that eluded me hunting in Kansas this year. I plan on doing some post season scouting and shed hunting and hopefully I can find some great land to lease or public land to hunt not to far from my house. A lady that we met at our church said I could hunt on her land and told me there is a mountain lion that has been seen on her property on several occasions. I  am not to sure about hunting where there are mountain lions, those things are big and tend to get hungry. Any way it is never to early to start preparing for next year. Now is a great time to do some post season scouting. Although today the temperature is 5 degrees for the high and minus 13 for the low. I think I will hang out by the fire and watch some football today. I know I’m a wuss, but this Georgia boy is just not used to this extreme cold weather. I dealt with it when I was in Germany in the Army, but I was in my twenties then. I’ll be ready next year when it is time to get after those monster whitetails. I can’t wait to see one of these big old Kansas brutes.

Yesterday afternoon I was able to go deer hunting. I had one blowing at me and then I saw 4 does and then a small 6-point chasing them, but no big bucks. I have had a tough year of deer hunting so far and it is just about over for me. We are going back to Georgia and by the time we get back to Kansas the season will be over. I may get to go one last time this afternoon or in the morning and that will be it for my season. Even though I haven’t harvested a whitetail this year I have enjoyed being out there getting after those big bucks. I just enjoy being in the great outdoors deer hunting.

The other morning I was headed home from work at 5:30 a.m. when I saw a police car pulled over with his lights on. So I slowed down and when I got closer I saw a car in front of the police car and the front end was wrecked pretty bad, so I started scanning the area for a whitetail and as I passed the scene I saw an antler sticking up out of the grass. So I went down and turned around and went back by and I saw the rack better this time and it was huge. This area is known for big bucks. So I’m thinking I wonder if I could get the whitetail?

So I decide to stop and ask. I pulled up behind the police car and got out and asked him if I could have the monster, and he said sure. He gave me a special tag to put on it and helped me load it. It was in the twenties when i got home so I went to bed and when I got up I took pictures and field dressed him and was able to get two good hams and the tenderloins. I was surprised how good of shape the big bucks rack was in, it only had a scratch on the back side from being hit.

We have a huge corn field in our back yard and it runs all the way to the paved road where he was hit, less than a mile from our house. So this huge trophy was coming from our backyard. I scored the buck unofficially at 158.25 gross and 148.5 net. I think one day I will have the rack European mounted, it is beautiful. He was very big and though I didn’t weigh him I know he was well over 200 pounds. When I cleaned him he was full of corn and beans. He was eating good that’s for sure. His tarsal glands were dark but not like some I have seen during the full rut. Anyway I was glad to get this trophy , I hate to see them get hit by a car, I would have rather have gotten him with my bow. He could have been that Pope & Young I am in search of.

Now that deer season is winding down and winter is upon us, food sources are more important than ever for the whitetail deer. A great place on your deer hunting property to harvest late season big bucks is food plots.

Learning the whitetails feeding habits can help you figure out where to set up to get a shot at one of the big bucks after the rut is over and food becomes critical for the deer to survive the harsh winter.

I like to look for trails leading to and from food plots or crops and set up down wind of these trails. I like to get close to what I believe is the bedding area, but not too close that I let the deer know that I am there. That is why it is important to make sure the wind is in your favor and be as quiet as possible to avoid being busted by the whitetails.

Yesterday was the last day of rifle season here in Kansas. But I still plan on doing some serious deer hunting.

I haven’t been able to harvest a whitetail this deer season but I’m not giving up just yet. I plan on setting up on the trails that I have found leading to the corn fields where I am deer hunting. If you have food plots on your property just find the trails leading to and from them and get close to the bedding area in the transition area. The big bucks can lose up to 30 percent of their body weight during the rut. So once the rut is over they start feeding like crazy to replace the fat they lost to get ready for the tough winter months ahead. If your property doesn’t have food plots or crops look for acorns or grasses, if the frost has taken it’s toll on the grasses and the acorns are gone the whitetails turn to browsing on maple, red and white oak, cedar, sumac, basswood, apple.

It may be late deer season, but that doesn’t mean it is over yet. If you are having a tough time harvesting a big deer like me, don’t give up just yet.

It only takes one hunt to make a great season, if things haven’t worked out for you this year the way you had hoped, don’t let it get you down. The main thing is to keep trying and be persistent. Persistence pays off, hard work pays off. I have a friend that harvested the biggest buck of his life many years ago on the last evening on the last day of the season. It was New Years day and I had already given up on getting a trophy whitetail that year but he hadn’t, he was in his stand right before dark on the last day of the season and just before dark he shot the biggest whitetail of his 55 years of hunting. So even if the rut is over and my chances don’t look too good I’m not giving up just yet. I look at it like each time I go and don’t see anything the better my chances get at harvesting that buck of a lifetime. And food sources are going to be the way I plan on getting that monster.

How’s your deer hunting going this year?

I am working on a story about this deer, and I wanted to tease you a little. Check out this brute! I’ll have the whole wonderful story and photos and a video to share in the next few days. Yesterday, after church I got to go do a little deer hunting. I hunted a great looking spot on the edge of some real thick hardwoods and a big CRP field that meets a huge corn field. I have been deer hunting quite a bit this year but I haven’t seen a lot of deer. I am in a rut, no pun intended. Yesterday was no different, I didn’t see the first deer. I saw a bunch of pick-up trucks but no deer. I know that I am hunting a great spot from all the sign I am seeing, it is wore out with whitetail sign. I am making sure to take all the steps for scent control and hunting with the wind in my favor it has just been tough for me seeing whitetails this year. I am frustrated but will not give up on this spot. Hopefully my luck will change, it just takes one hunt to score on one of those big bucks and change the whole deer season.

Last week my boys and I were outside and we saw some coyotes way down in the back of our pasture, so I went and got my video camera and filmed them. video management, video solution, video streaming I was planning on going to Cabelas and getting a predator call and filming myself calling them in and shooting them. My boys like to play outside and it kind of freaks me out having coyotes so close by. Then yesterday as was was getting ready for church and my wife says there is a coyote in the front yard. So I made a b-line to my deer rifle and got some shells and snuck 0ut the back door and eased around the front of the house. And about the time I saw him he saw me and decided it was time to skeedaddle but it was to late. Not to brag but I was an expert marksman in the Army and a moving coyote at 70 yards was no problem. My 7mm short mag did a number on him! It was the first time I have ever been hunting in my Sunday best.

I hope everyone is having a great deer season. I have had an uneventful year of deer hunting. With us moving to Kansas in August with two weeks notice, I have had to kind of wing it as far as finding a place to go deer hunting. I found a great looking piece of public hunting ground about an hour from our house here in Kansas. But with limited time for scouting it has been a tough deer season for me so far. I have seen four deer from the deer stand this year. As far as big bucks go I have seen only one this year that I rattled up in Illinois, and he outsmarted me. I have seen more big bucks while driving in the dark this year than ever before. I have seen a ton of trophy whitetails while driving to or from work or to go hunting.

I am hunting a very nice area with crops, water, cover, and lots of deer sign such as scrapes, rubs, tracks, etc… I know I am hunting a huge buck because the rubs that I have found are huge. I have been hunting a little to close to the crops and have decided to change my hunting strategy. I did a little stealth scouting on my last hunt and have decided to hunt closer to what I believe is the bedding area, a really thick hardwood ridge with a huge grown up CRP field on one side and a huge cornfield on the other. I just haven’t had time to scout this piece of property so this past Sunday I decided to sacrifice some time hunting in the stand to scout and find a better place to hunt. The Kansas rifle season opens this week and hopefully my scouting will pay off. It is somewhat different here than in Georgia in that the Kansas rifle season opens this week and the rut is pretty much over. I believe the full rut in Kansas where I hunt was from Halloween this year to about the 6th or 7th of November, the very time I was bowhunting in Illinois. Oh well one of these days I am going to time the rut just right and get one of these Kansas big bucks. I haven’t given up just yet even though I’d say it is about the bottom of the seventh inning if you know what I mean.

I received some more pictures from my buddies in Georgia with a couple of nice bucks they took back in my home state. Ronnie killed this great buck in Lincoln county in Georgia.

And DHBB Pro-Staff member Troy took another fine Putnam county buck. Congratulations on your bucks guys, I sure miss hunting in Georgia.

I just love deer hunting. Seeing all the big deer being taken is awesome. It seems each year the bucks get bigger. I think all the Quality Deer Management is really paying off. The big bucks are on the move in Georgia. Thanks to my buddies back in Georgia for sending me some pictures of some Georgia big bucks.

Robert McDonald harvested this very nice 9 pointer on November 1,2009 deer hunting in Putnam county in Georgia. This buck had been seen on trail camera since July and was know to be quite a wanderer.

Robert got in the stand at 4:00 pm on November 1st and at 4:05 the buck showed up in a clear-cut with his nose in the air trying to wind a hot doe. Robert made a sixty yard shot with his 7mm mag and the buck ran to the tree he was in and laid down 20 yards away. Robert said it was an awesome feeling to be able to see horns from the stand and as hard as he tried to hunt till dark he just had to get down and check out his trophy whitetail. I don’t blame you there Robert, I would have had to get down and check him out too!

Congratulations Robert on a great buck! That is awesome to have a nice buck on trail camera and to be able to harvest him. I bet you have already got a spot picked out to hang him on the wall.

Have you had any luck deer hunting this year? I have seen a lot of really nice bucks people have gotten. I have hunted hard this year but don’t have much to show for it. I just thank the good lord for each chance I get to get out in the woods. I’m not even getting close to giving up on that monster yet. I think I’ll go hunting Monday morning before I go to work. That’s if my boss(wife) doesn’t mind.

video management, video solution, video streaming I did something yesterday that I have always wanted to do, go deer hunting in the snow. I arrived at the WIHA (Walk in hunting access)hunting land well before daylight and it was raining of and on. But with all the big bucks being seen around our house lately I knew the rut was in full swing and a little rain wasn’t going to stop me from deer hunting. As I got to the area I wanted to hunt and picked out a good tree to get up in low and behold it started snowing like crazy. Now being from Georgia I have never been deer hunting in the snow but have always wanted to. As I am going up the tree I look over and there is one of the biggest most worn out rubs I have ever seen. Talk about being pumped up. It’s snowing like crazy the rut is in full swing and I am hunting over one of the biggest rubs if not the biggest I have ever seen on TV or in person. I set up in a hardwood draw with a creek running parallel to it and corn fields on two sides as far as you can see and on one end was a big hill of hardwoods that came down to the hardwoods I was hunting. I would have bet you $500 I would have seen some deer. I stayed in the stand as long as I could but didn’t see any deer. Not having any experience hunting in the snow I thought I was prepared but both pairs of my gloves got soaking wet and as hard as I tried with hands warmers I could not get my hands dry and when I couldn’t feel my hands I had to come out of the stand. I was hard to do with frozen hands I couldn’t get the pins out of my deer stand to take it off of the tree. After several attempts I finally got the out though. I took some footage of the snow and the big rubs I wanted to share with you here. I wish I had some footage of some big bucks but I didn’t see any. When I got down out of my stand I walked about fifty yards up a hill and there are fresh deer tracks in the snow. I cannot figure how in the world I didn’t see those deer. I had been rattling and calling and all I can figure is they snuck in on me and busted me and snuck back out. Oh well next time I will be ready!

It looks like the big bucks are on the move back in Georgia. Our newest Pro-Staff member Troy put a big Putnam county 8 pointer down Saturday evening in the edge of some hardwoods and a big clear-cut. Troy said the buck was on the move about thirty minutes before dark and he had to make a quick shot which resulted in his eye being dotted by the scope on his 30-06. Troy said he didn’t even feel it! That’s what I’m talking about Troy, you wear that wound proudly!

Well we just returned from Illinois after a long hard week of deer hunting. We were greeted by very warm temperatures once again this year when we arrived in Illinois. We saw very few deer while deer hunting and that seemed to be the sentiment with all the other hunters we talked to as well. The warm weather had the deer moving mainly at night. With the moon being full most of the activity was happening at night. For the second straight year temperatures were in the mid seventies. I saw one deer from the stand on a six day hunt. Talk about frustrating and being mentally and physically drained. You try to keep a positive attitude but I wont lie it was hard to do. We put out two trail cameras and almost all of the activity was at night or right at dark or daybreak.

One morning the temperatures were in the upper forties and I was able to rattle in a nice 10 pointer. He came straight to me across a cow pasture and I thought I had him fooled but as he is coming right to me when he got to about forty yards out he made a right turn for some reason and walked away. I don’t know if he smelled me or what but he knew something wasn’t right. I tried to turn him with every call I had up my sleeve but he wasn’t having it. I grunted, I bleated, I rattled, I snort wheezed you name it. He just slowly walked away. Talk about frustration, I got it on film but trying to film myself while getting ready for a shot I only got some decent footage. Oh well it was a fun week of chasing big bucks. My hunting partner Troy shot a doe on the last day of our hunt but we couldn’t find her. He thinks he hit her a little to far forward and hit her in the shoulder. Even though we didn’t get any big bucks it was a fun week of deer hunting with good friends. I plan on going hunting here in Kansas this weekend so maybe my luck will change for the better. I hope you all are having a great deer season so far. Those bucks are really on the move here in Kansas. How about where you hunt has the chasing started yet? video management, video solution, video streaming

If you love deer hunting as much as I do, this is probably your favorite time of the year. Last week I picked up my wife and kids at the airport and on the way home at 3:30pm my wife starts saying something but can’t get the words out so I look over to see what the commotion is about and there is a big buck running from a cornfield across a pasture to a patch of woods. He was a big old corn fed buck with a very nice rack. I only saw him for a split second but he was nice. Right then I knew it was time to go deer hunting. Then driving home from work I saw a truck pulled over and there in the road was a very nice buck the man had just hit with his truck.

Then the next day I get a text message with a 190″ buck that my cousins friend harvested in Kansas. A 190″ class buck with a bow now that’s impressive! Then yesterday as I am driving to where I was going to hunt I see a nice 130″-140″ buck crossing a cut cornfield right in front of my truck. Needless to say I was pumped! So the big bucks are definitely on the move here in Kansas. Also my father shot a very, very nice buck back in Georgia but could not find him. To say he is very disappointed would be an understatement. He even called in a tracking dog to help look for it but they never found him. I feel so bad for my dad he is such a good man and I wish he had been able to find the big buck. Hopefully he still will find him.

How about where you hunt? Hows the deer hunting? Are the big bucks on the move yet? Some friends and I are heading bow hunting in Illinois this week and I am pumped about it. Hopefully we will get some nice cold weather and maybe one of us will be able to harvest a big swollen neck Illinois trophy whitetail. I cant wait! If it is as much fun as last year it will be a blast! I hope to get a nice buck on film this year to share with everyone, hopefully we can make it happen.

I also am very excited about an opportunity to team up with a great company and possibly be on their Pro-Staff. I received a follow up on a application I put in and they wanted me to do the second step of the process so hopefully things will workout and we can team up. I don’t want to jinx myself so I’ll leave it at that.  I hope you all are having a very good deer season, and remember to take a child or friend hunting with you. You will make memories that will last a lifetime.

video management, video solution, video streaming Well last weekend I finally got to go deer hunting. Not only did i get to hunt some whitetails in Kansas but as a Kansas resident. I found some public hunting about an hour from my house and did a little scouting and hunted for the first time. The spot I was hunting looked very good. It was corn and soybean fields and fence-row woodlots with creeks everywhere. It was definitely a little different than the type of terrain I grew up deer hunting in Georgia. I got there early Saturday morning and scouted and located a nice little fence-row surrounded by cornfields on three sides and soybeans on the other. I thought I was dressed properly, it was in the low 30’s but something I wasn’t prepared for was the 20 mile an hour winds. I had a hard time finding a decent tree to get in and when I did I had to trim several limbs and started sweating and then the wind got me nice and cold. I have to admit I came out of the stand before dark that wind was just cutting right through me. But this weekend I am headed back and this time I will be ready. Those big bucks better be on there toes (hooves). I mean business this weekend.

The video I put on here is of a real nice buck that I filmed in Kentucky as I was driving on my way to move to Kansas. I’m driving down the highway and see these big bucks in a field and I pulled over and got out my camcorder and got some footage. I didn’t have a tripod and I had to zoom all the way in to get a decent shot of the buck but without a tripod the footage is very shaky. Oh well you can tell he is a very nice buck. Also I included a little footage of the public land I was hunting in Kansas last weekend.

Also I wanted to thank my good friend Kelley Mayhue from the group “Fishing with Dynamite” I asked him if he would be interested in doing a theme song for our hunting videos and he did a wonderful job on the song and I finally was able to figure out how to include it on a video. Let me know what y’all think about it. I think he did great job and I love the new song! Thanks Kelley I owe you one buddy! For more information on Fishing With Dynamite check out their website at www.fwithd.com. They are an up and coming band out of Loganville Georgia they have a great new CD out that you can listen to and purchase through their website if you would like to. They are some good ole boys and good friends of mine, check out their new CD you will love it.

Hopefully I’ll have some good new stories and photos to post soon. I am excited about hunting in Kansas and our upcoming trip bowhunting in Illinois. I hope you all are having a great deer season and remember to take a child or friend hunting, you will make memories that will last a lifetime.